It’s that time of year again! Steve Englehart has posted the Adventures of Rustle, the original Christmas Tree, at www.steveenglehart.com. I did the chapter headings. It’s one chapter per day for the month of December and you can learn a lot of Christmas history if you read it. It’s fun. It’s free.

Congratulations to Joe Staton and Mike Curtis, along with the rest of the Tracy team – inker/letterer Shelley Pleger, and police consultant Jim Doherty – on their SECOND consecutive Harvey Award win for Dick Tracy, in the “Best Syndicated Strip or Panel” category! Well deserved!

Joe will be appearing at the Baltimore Comic-Con, September 5 -7. At the show, they’ll be distributing a Yearbook with art by the guests. Those artists with creator-owned characters were asked to draw them interacting with Matt Wagner’s character Grendel. This is Joe’s contribution, with colors by Matt Webb, pitting The Blonde against Hunter Rose …

The Calling Dick Tracy e-book collection of Mike Curtis’s and my run on the Dick Tracy strip is available for purchase now. It contains our first four Tracy continuities from 2011 and will be a good way to catch up. Here is a nice link for the e-book with a nice “Buy Now” button: http://www.rabbitholecomics.com/dicktracy Can’t …

Steve Englehart has posted the Adventures of Rustle, the original Christmas Tree, at www.steveenglehart.com. I did the chapter headings. It’s one chapter per day for the month of December and you can learn a lot of Christmas history if you read it. It’s fun. It’s free.

This is the official website of Eisner Award-winning cartoonist, comic book artist and children's illustrator, Joe Staton. Joe is best-known for his decades of work on DC Comics characters like Batman, Green Lantern, The Huntress, Plastic Man and the Justice Society of America, his co-creation (with Nicola Cuti), E-Man, and many popular "all-ages" comics like Jughead and Scooby-Doo. He is currently the artist on Tribune Media Services' long-running newspaper strip, Dick Tracy. (Click on the image above to read today's strip!)